On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 14:31 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
On 07/02/2011 02:15 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 07/02/2011 02:11 PM, inode0 wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Daniel B. Thurman<dant(a)cdkkt.com> wrote:
>>> I used: (((foo==0)?foo=1:0)) and it works in a bash script!
>> I don't think that is quite the same as what I'm guessing your
>> original attempt intended. In this case if foo does not equal 0 to
>> begin with it won't be set to 0. Perhaps that doesn't matter in your
>> particular case.
> Indeed, I got it wrong too. Looks like it needs to be:
>
> (((foo==0)?(foo=1):(foo=0)))
>
> Frankly, I don't think I'll be using that syntax much. Too many ways
> to get it wrong.
>
Yeah, you guys are correct, it does not toggle
which was my intent. So I basically went back
to the trusty if-else-fi statement of which anyone
can read without much obscurity. :P
Thanks to all, for contributing!
((foo=!foo))
or if using an interactive Shell:
((foo=\!foo))
poc